Example sentences of "only [verb] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 2 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 3 | As our bodies can only make a few of the necessary vitamins we need , they must be provided by what we eat . |
| 4 | So is the main report true ? only got a few seconds , I 'm sorry . |
| 5 | Well I only got a few responses so the rest of the votes I made up . |
| 6 | You only got a few minutes did n't you ? |
| 7 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 8 | When they called on us , they would always say to Mum , ‘ Fanny , we came to see how you are getting on , but we can only stay a few minutes . ’ |
| 9 | N.B. : We have only listed a few Zionist atrocities as to list them all , as with the crimes of the IRA , would fill a book or two . |
| 10 | Sometimes the image would only remain a few seconds . |
| 11 | Unlike many other contracts , the courts have not exercised a strong influence over the framework of this relationship and the common law only imposes a few terms upon leasehold parties . |
| 12 | If you can only wait a few — ’ |
| 13 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 14 | It is obviously every bit as important to respect the wild flowers in a foreign country as it is in one 's own , and not to pick large quantities of anything as you will only need a few pieces to create a floral souvenir of your trip . |
| 15 | ‘ Only installed a few weeks back . |
| 16 | Patting a horse , instead of stroking or scratching it , only has a few valid uses : as a muscular relaxant and distraction ; and as a part of ‘ breaking-in ’ so that the horse gets used to things thumping around on its back before it is actually ridden . |
| 17 | Even if you make a complete mess of it , the model only has a few inches to fall . |
| 18 | Typically , the net contains many nodes , but each node only has a few inputs : N is quite small . |
| 19 | He discarded his captain Wayne Shelford in a rather messy episode in mid-1990 only to find a few months later that Shelford 's replacement also had his faults . |
| 20 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 21 | ‘ It had been a quiet day and I had only caught a few small dace and then my rod thumped round . |
| 22 | If the previous Labour Government in which he served had only caught a few more headlines and been as active in prison improvements and new prison building as all Conservative Governments since 1979 have been , his comments could be taken more seriously . |
| 23 | She says she had no idea that there was a REAL Paradise in Gloucestershire , even though she only lives a few miles away . |
| 24 | Overall , Joan 's only uses a few Creole features : some Creole past tense forms ( did go , etc . |
| 25 | Having only done a few short walks before in true Water & Ventilation style he decided to ‘ test the water ’ first by walking the Ridgeway in Wiltshire , 85 miles and five days later he completed it . |
| 26 | However , we agreed that self-help schemes could only bring a few jobs and that a central demand should still be that the state provide jobs . |
| 27 | However , I only put a few dozen sheets of paper through the machine , and two of them caught on the wire loop , which creased the paper and caused ink smudges where the machine was still printing . |
| 28 | we know , from research even amongst very young girls who only smoke a few cigarettes a week , that when they try to give up they get withdrawal symptoms , and so having a cigarette erm helps them |
| 29 | The total size of the claims resulting from such an incident might well be enormous , even though the computer program itself may have only cost a few hundred pounds . |
| 30 | I have only selected a few examples of deducing modes of life from these fossils with two valves ; the examples could be multiplied many times . |